Transformers Energon - The Battle for Energon

Starring:Katsuyuki Konishi, Mitsuo Iwata, Nobuyuki Hiyama, Kosuke Toriumi, Nobutoshi Kanna, YÃ»ichi Nagashima, TesshÃ´ Genda, KÃ´ji Yusa, Isshin Chiba, Jin Yamanoi, Daisuke Kishio, Masataka Nakai, Yukiko Tagami, Masumi Asano, Akira Tomisaka, Yasunori Masutani, Junichi EndÃ´, Nobuo Tobita, RyÃ´tarÃ´ Okiayu, Kenta Miyake
Director: Yutaka Sato, Jun Kawagoe
Studio: Paramount
Product Type: DVD

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Transformers Energon debuted in America on the Cartoon Network in January 2004, succeeding Transformers Armada. The Autobots and Decepticons have forged an uneasy alliance to mine the energy-providing element Energon. But a flock of drones called Terrorcons arrive to steal the Energon so they can revive Unicron. Naturally, Optimus Prime and the other Transformers have to protect the Energon and defeat the Terrorcons--with some help from brash teenager Kicker. Energon ranks among the weaker entries in the Transformers canon. Kicker comes across as an obnoxious loudmouth, rather than a rebellious free spirit. The CG animation of the Transformers is weightless and sometimes comically inept: when the robots run, their knees don't bend. The outcome of the story is a forgone conclusion, and the many transformation and battle scenes feel suspiciously like commercials for the new line of toys. (Unrated, suitable for ages 7 and up: cartoon violence) --Charles Solomon

Customer Reviews:

Transformers Energon is a great cartoon show!.......2005-10-29

Transformers Energon is a great cartoon show! This is one of few Transformers cartoon series that is animated from Japan. Transformers Energon is a great series because it is first series to combine CGI and Japanese anime together in a Transformers cartoon. Optimus Prime, Hot Shot, IronHide, Jetfire, Skyblast, and Kicker, are some of the great Autobot characters in this series! The Decepticon Terrorcons, Scorpinok and Alpha Quintesson are some really bad-ass villians for the Autobots. This particular episodes hinted that Energon Megatron will be introduced to the series. Transformers: Battle for Energon DVD has Transformers Energon episodes 1-4 of the series. The episodes are Cyberton City, Energon Stars, Scorpinok, and Megatron's Sword. I highly recommened this DVD! A+

The great beginning.......2005-08-29

This is the first DVD of this crappily made "series". They should have released them as a set with all episodes but at least they're better than nothing. It takes place on earth in various cities that are mining energon with the help of the omnicons. It takes place after Armada and the autobots and decepticons are united for a period of time. It's the adventures of the autobots and later the battles between them and the decepticons. I love this series, by far my favourite. I like the animation, the story and the voice acting to be better than all other transformers series'. Over priced and incomplete but still well worth having 4 episodes to play at your leisure in my opinion.

This particular DVD is REALLY TERRIBLE!.......2005-04-07

I am fairly new to the Transformers but my 5 year old son likes the toys. So I cautiously bought "Shockblast Unleashed" and it was really, really good. I especially like the fact that the toys look just like what's in the cartoon! I overlooked the fact that some characters call each other "Looser!" This is not what your target audience (5+ year old toy buyers) should be hearing. Regardless, I next bought "The Battle for Energon" and the previous reviewers were right on. The character, "Kicker", is so undescribably obnoxious, he makes you want to shut off the DVD player (I had to!). This DVD went in the trash. It IS THAT BAD. The actual transformers in this DVD are really well done and the action is superb as well. All that said, Kicker still makes the DVD too painful to own. What kind of idiots write this show?

A rocky first few episodes but potential.......2004-11-02

Like the early episodes of Armada Transformers Energon has potential to behold quality. The idea is that it is now 20 years since the destruction of Unicron and the Autobots and Decepticons (Minus Megatron) have formed an alliance and are living peacefully. They have teamed up with Omnicons who search for Energon. However they soon become attacked by a new threat of Terrorcons who seek out energon to revive Unicron. The leader of the Terrorcons is a quinteson by then name of Alpha Q and his pawn Scorpanoc (Origionally introduced in the final Season of the Origional Transformers).

Meanwhile so it's not all about Robots and so the Transformers have some Human help there is now a kid named Kicker who has a form of ESP that allows him to sense Energon and other strange Energies. The series also tries to revive Classic Favorite Ironhide as young rookie who becomes somewhat reluctant friends with Kicker.

There are complaints about this however. The Early episodes suffer from weak villanous characters and the Terrorcons are just robotic Hawks and Wolves. Scorponac is an annoying villian who is no Megatron, or even Starscream for that matter.

However with a little fine tuning this series could last a few seasons and hold a special place in fans hearts (as I recall similar gripes were made about Beast Wars and now it is recalled fondly by many). Overall and I am saying this as a Transfan, give this series some time, the current style in animation for all series trying to reach a large audience is Anime style and for most it has become the norm. Armada hit gold with the final set of Episodes and this one will hopefully this one will have a nice succesful run for this young Generation (which is the Target Audience)

Transformers: Energon? More Like Transformers: Excrament.......2004-09-29

The Transformers franchise has officially been reduced to entertaining anime fans who think every dubbed anime imported from Japan rules.

Ever since the Armada series replaced the Autobots' screentime with three annoying kids, transformed the series into a lame Pokemon rip-off and then brought in Unicron because the ratings and writing were both coming under SEVERE scrutiny, it was a last desperate attempt to bring in viewers, it worked, and we got quality Armada episodes and character developments as a result.

But then came the next season, and quickly, we all realised that we had fallen into the trap, with "Armada" managing to somehow be regarded as a series that was'nt as bad as it's earlier episodes, "Energon" premiered with far worse episodes than the first three episodes of it's predeccesopr, combined with attrocious use of...yes, you guessed it, ANOTHER child hero (Kicker) who has the ability to turn Super-Sajyn whenever Energon is around and is the ideal Energon detector for the Autobots.

The cel-shading animation is UGLY, and completly takes the viewer off of watching any battles that occur during the episodes, Kicker gets way too much screen time, and the Autobots themselves are portrayed as complete idiots, stating the obvious every two minutes.

Energon has sadly proven to me that Generation One AND Beast Wars WERE the two greatest Transformers ever produced, Bob Skir ruined American Transformers cartoons with Beast Machines, and after several quality Takara seasons, Japan have finally shown that they now absolutley SUCK when it comes to Trasnformers anime.

Newsflash to all dubbed Anime fans: Anime is KILLING the american animation indusrty, it's time you realised your precious genre has it's ups and downs, and THIS is one of them.

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